discipline

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From Middle English, from Old English, from Old French descipline, from Latin disciplina (instruction) and discipulus (pupil), from discere (to learn), from Proto-Indo-European *dek- ((cause to) accept).

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discipline (plural disciplines)

  1. A controlled behaviour; self-control
  2. An enforced compliance or control
  3. A systematic method of obtaining obedience
  4. A state of order based on submission to authority
  5. A punishment to train or maintain control
  6. A set of rules regulating behaviour
  7. A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification
  8. A specific branch of knowledge or learning
  9. A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs, or a sub-category of said activity.

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discipline (third-person singular simple present disciplines, present participle disciplining, simple past and past participle disciplined)

  1. (transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.
  2. (transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.
  3. (transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
  4. (transitive) To impose order on someone.

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discipline ? (plural disciplines, diminutive disciplinetje)

  1. discipline, sanction
  2. discipline, self-control
  3. discipline, branch

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discipline f. (plural disciplines)

  1. discipline, sanction
  2. discipline, self-control
  3. discipline, branch

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discipline

  1. first-person singular present indicative of discipliner
  2. third-person singular present indicative of discipliner
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of discipliner
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of discipliner
  5. second-person singular imperative of discipliner

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discipline f.

  1. Plural form of disciplina.

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discipline (infinitive disciplinar)

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of disciplinar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of disciplinar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of disciplinar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of disciplinar.
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